The WWII plundering of a Jewish family's property

Marios Sousis remembers a rather grim man - always well dressed in a white shirt and bow tie - making frequent visits to his family's Athens home after the end of the Nazi occupation. A mere child at the time, Sousis could not know that this man was a lawyer - and his family's only chance at reclaiming possessions plundered by acquaintances and neighbors after his father was shipped off to a concentration camp.

"My mother and I rarely discussed these subjects after the occupation. It was a past we wanted to forget," says Sousis. "But she kept all these documents. Out of intuition, maybe? Who knows? They're testaments of an era."

He shows us a folder stuffed full of papers so fragile they look like they may disintegrate at a touch. His wife discovered them in a closet recently while spring cleaning: These yellowing papers are the case records of the trial against the...